There he goes again, the mouthpiece for Rove and Cheney, believing his "access" as a stenographer makes him a journalist. It doesn't. It makes him a stenographer. Allen gussies up his source's bile with a few fig leaf sentences and a gesture from a Democratic rebuttal. But he also offers the entire Cheney statement – … Continue reading Mike Allen, Cheney’s Chief Spokesman
Greenwald tackles Allen: Note, too, the sequence of events as Allen describes them: While I was writing the piece, a very well-known former Bush administration official e-mailed some caustic criticism of Obama’s decision to release the memos. I asked the former official to be quoted by name, but this person refused, e-mailing: “Please use only … Continue reading Mike Allen: Bush Mouthpiece, Ctd.
Greg Sargent gets a response from Mike Allen: Sometimes ya have to read beyond a blog snippet. When people read our actual article, they’ll see that the headline and top two-thirds are an exclusive on David Axelrod’s behind-the-scenes description of the President’s decision-making process, followed by a shorter Bush view from a very high-level official … Continue reading Mike Allen: Bush Mouthpiece, Ctd.
Under what reasoning does Politico's Mike Allen give the following piece of spin anonymity?: A former top official in the administration of President George W. Bush called the publication of the memos “unbelievable.” “It's damaging because these are techniques that work, and by Obama's action today, we are telling the terrorists what they are,” the … Continue reading Mike Allen: Bush Mouthpiece
The enmeshment of the new media site with corporate interests – in which Vox writes ad-copy for big companies, while also claiming to cover them objectively – is not new to Ezra Klein: GE provided crucial support for media startup Vox.com, an explanatory-journalism site launched by former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, with whom it … Continue reading GE Brings Vox To Life
America voted Obama the worst president in 70 years pic.twitter.com/G3TRUIbVWW — Steel Backbone (@SteelBackbone) July 3, 2014 Jesse Singal doesn’t take seriously the new Quinnipiac poll that’s burning up the blogosphere: Not surprisingly, a new poll suggesting that Americans think Obama is the worst president since World War II is getting a fair amount of attention, … Continue reading The Worst Polling Question Since WWII
The last few years have been fascinating to watch as new media stars have both benefited from and then fallen out with big media companies. Nate Silver is the obvious example. He went from being an independent blogger – heavily linked by the Dish among other new media sites – to becoming the true star … Continue reading Exit Ezra, Smiling
In an excerpt from his new book, The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark, Dean Starkman contrasts accountability journalism with access journalism. Perhaps the best way to distinguish between the two is that one form of journalism seeks access to power and the other kind of journalism seeks to make power uncomfortable. We all know which one is … Continue reading Journalism And Power
A reader writes: Thank you for continuing to cover the state of journalism today. I thoroughly enjoyed what you had to say about Time Inc’s remodeling – a development that I would not have known about were it not for the Dish – as well as your continued attention to the Mike Allen fiasco. It … Continue reading Journalism’s Surrender, Ctd
Big Duck/Beard Day here at the Dish – but I have to give the prize of this culture war explosion to Rush Limbaugh. It really is a quote of the year: Well, I just found out what a butt plug was. I didn’t even know. Yeah, right. You want to know what I think? Leave. … Continue reading The Best Of The Dish Today
